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Love is the flower of life: it blossoms unexpectedly and without law and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour o...

Jeff Koons: Rabbit (1986)  Stainless steel sculpture [1]     I.    D. H. Lawrence famously contrasted the shape and surface of a peach with...

The MIT Press (2017)     I.    Neue deutsche Denke are a bit like buses; you wait ages for one to come along, then two or three arrive on t...

Helena Citrónová 💘 Franz Wunsch     I.    In the early spring of 1942, 19-year-old Helena Citrónová was one of a thousand women and girls ...

Dior: Joy (2018): click here I. Joy * Somethings are so perfect they deserve to be acknowledged as such. And the TV ad by Dior ...

Lawrence's essay on Whitman in his Studies in Classic American Literature  (1923) is more piss-take than critical analysis. Lawr...

Image: Desktop Nexus I. Sex on Fire  Just as for Lawrence sex and beauty are one and the same thing, so too is being something he ...

19th-century wooden poacher's priest Image: Country Home Antiques In a letter written to Sallie Hopkin on Christmas Day, 1...

Cover of the first US edition (1923)  by Knud Merrild  I: The Case of Bastian Schweinsteiger There was an amusing story in t...

I'm a free spirit, men love me / I'll drink, I'll dance but do not forsake me For my magic will end in flames and / Your h...

I hold the keys of eternal bliss; whatever shall be locked in this life shall be locked hereafter  and whatever you loose on Earth ...

In the name of Love, the amorous subject is prepared to burn himself up to the point of destruction within that exhausting wound like...

  Franz Von Stuck: Cupid at the Masked Ball (1887) We have long endeavoured to make love identify itself to us; to have Eros sp...

When love becomes an ideal - when it becomes caught up in a system of values - then love becomes a problem.  Not that you would k...